Alone In The Wilderness Quotes

#1. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.

Muriel Barbery

#2. A voice alone in the wilderness is a beautiful thing.

John Arnold

#3. But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

Joseph Conrad

#4. If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

George Dyson

#5. It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

Wanda Koop

#6. Hurt of this magnitude is like menopause," Phyllis tells me. I've just wiped my nose with one of the hats. She takes it from me and hands me a tissue. "Comes in hot flashes. Just when you feel like you can't take it anymore, it passes for a bit. But it comes back, boy does it.

Tarryn Fisher

#7. No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

Townsend Whelen

#8. Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.

Childhood is a wilderness.

Aspen Matis

#9. All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone.

William Cullen Bryant

#10. I didn't know how living outdoors and sleeping on the ground in a tent each night and walking alone through the wilderness all day almost every day had come to feel like my normal life, but it had. It was the idea of not doing it that scared me.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.

Guy Deutscher

#12. No more alone through the world's wilderness,
Although I trod the paths of high intent,
I journeyed now: no more companionless

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#13. Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.

Daniel J. Rice

#15. ...there is something which impresses the mind with awe in the shade and silence of these vast forests. In the deep solitude, alone with nature, we converse with God.

Thaddeus Mason Harris

#16. The next "I will" is in John, fourteenth chapter, verse eighteen: "I will not leave you comfortless." To me it is a sweet thought that Christ has not left us alone in this dark wilderness here below. Although

D.L. Moody

#17. She had the top down and I could smell everything in those woods, and you know what an old fine smell that is, like something which has been mostly left alone and is not much troubled.
("Mrs. Todd's Shortcut")

Stephen King

#18. It would be a hard life, but it would be theirs alone. Here at the world's edge, far from everything familiar and safe, they would build a new home in the wilderness and do it as partners.

Eowyn Ivey

#19. There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned

Stephen Vincent Benet

#20. Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young, the wilderness offered not only adventure but also therapy and peace: a place to be alone with your thoughts.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#21. Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone ... will furnish us with a number of very important uses ... If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.

Olaus Murie

#22. If the world were only pain and logic, who would want it?

Mary Oliver

#23. Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

Wendell Berry

#24. The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

Wendell Berry

#25. It is you I have been able to love, you alone in all the world. You can have no idea of what that means. It means a spring in the desert, a blossoming tree in the wilderness.

Hermann Hesse

#26. To travel alone is risky business, especially into a wilderness; equally risky is to have dreams and not follow them.

Robert F. Perkins

#27. ... I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God ... in these temples of God's own building.

Harold Bell Wright

#28. He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

Dag Hammarskjold

#29. No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Frank Norris

#30. Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

John Muir

#31. Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Robert Anderson

#32. The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.

Daniel J. Rice

#33. strangers? Millie's swan song on the stage, the last

Kate Atkinson

#34. The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can't see beyond trying to make a baby, and they never stop to think about what it will really be like once said baby has in fact, arrived.

Karen Fowler